ideq105
05-06-2012, 08:24 PM
Just reporting the successful install of PC-BSD9.0-XFCE on a Zotac ION330.
This is a single board computer with integrated USB, Ethernet, and SATA. There are no slots for plug-in cards and no parallel devices or busses. The cpu block consists of an Intel dual-core Atom and Nvidia 16-stream GPU.
Installation from DVD was easy and much like a Linux installation experience. The graphical fonts were fuzzy and the raster did not fill my 19" monitor. However, a monitor tuning dialog eventually appeared for the Nvidia output. I selected 1280x1024 which was perfect even though the monitor type was unknown. And the resulting Isotope screen is cheerful.
AppCafe is neat and purposeful. So far, I have installed Firefox, Thunderbird, Emacs, Midnight Commander, Mplayer, VLC. Sound from VLC and Firefox works even though the Sound Mixer control indicates unknown device.
One concern is that 4MB and 8MB USB memory are not mountable.. they are just noted in /var/log/messages. I needed to transfer 22gb from Sabayon Linux. For that, I used an old 80gb spinner in a USB case formatted to ext2. This was mountable on BSD but slow since it was all files, no tarballs.
The MPlayer PBI includes a graphical control which I thought was obsolete. I may need to recompile it to get the VDPAU library which uses the Nvidia GPU to decode ATSC TV high-def streams from a 950Q USB stick. This is TBD.
I first tried install on old Biostar IDEQ SFF computer. It worked but the tuning dialog only offered 1024x768 which results in marginal fonts. It is good enough since this is only a test box.
Score: 8/10... I salute the developers.
This is a single board computer with integrated USB, Ethernet, and SATA. There are no slots for plug-in cards and no parallel devices or busses. The cpu block consists of an Intel dual-core Atom and Nvidia 16-stream GPU.
Installation from DVD was easy and much like a Linux installation experience. The graphical fonts were fuzzy and the raster did not fill my 19" monitor. However, a monitor tuning dialog eventually appeared for the Nvidia output. I selected 1280x1024 which was perfect even though the monitor type was unknown. And the resulting Isotope screen is cheerful.
AppCafe is neat and purposeful. So far, I have installed Firefox, Thunderbird, Emacs, Midnight Commander, Mplayer, VLC. Sound from VLC and Firefox works even though the Sound Mixer control indicates unknown device.
One concern is that 4MB and 8MB USB memory are not mountable.. they are just noted in /var/log/messages. I needed to transfer 22gb from Sabayon Linux. For that, I used an old 80gb spinner in a USB case formatted to ext2. This was mountable on BSD but slow since it was all files, no tarballs.
The MPlayer PBI includes a graphical control which I thought was obsolete. I may need to recompile it to get the VDPAU library which uses the Nvidia GPU to decode ATSC TV high-def streams from a 950Q USB stick. This is TBD.
I first tried install on old Biostar IDEQ SFF computer. It worked but the tuning dialog only offered 1024x768 which results in marginal fonts. It is good enough since this is only a test box.
Score: 8/10... I salute the developers.